Congratulations to the whole LiT.RL team! Our peer-reviewed JOSS publication is out as of March 9th, 2019! Details: In December 2018 we released the sourceView More
Category: Blog
This blog is for Dr. Rubin’s LiT.RL Lab updates, FIMS announcements, and Western University campus event alerts. Dr. Rubin relates technology-related news, reflections on language technologies or natural language processing. She sometimes writes about languages and cultures. Her lab students may contribute occasional entries on any of the above, or on broader information organization and LIS issues.
Release of the LiT.RL News Verification Browser Source Code: Detecting Clickbait, Satire, and Falsified News
On 6 December 2018 the Language & Information Technology Research Lab (LiT.RL) from Western University (Canada) released the source code for the LiT.RL News VerificationView More
“Misinformation” is the Word of the Year 2018 for Dictionary.com
A brief video from the TIME Magazine highlights the absence of intent in misinformation as opposed to disinformation. About TIME: “A 24/7 news publication withView More
Chen’s Talk on “Real Facts About Fake News”
On Wednesday, October 17, 2018 Yimin Chen will deliver an invited talk at the Paris Branch Public Library. It is entitled “Real Facts About FakeView More
New FIMS Course on “Misinformation and Viral Deception”, January – April, 2019
In Winter 2019 Dr. Rubin is offering a new special topic interdisciplinary course “Misinformation & Viral Deception (FIMS 9328)” which will be open to FIMSView More
Presentations at April 2018 FIMULAW, Graduate Interdisciplinary Research Day, London, Ontario
The FIMULAW is an interdisciplinary conference held jointly by the Faculties of Information and Media Studies, Music, and Law at Western University. TheView More
Rubin Publishes a Chapter in Journalism Book on Detecting Deceptive Online News
A new book on Fake News is published by the Presses de l’Université Laval (in French), edited by Florian Sauvageau and Simon Thibault. The bookView More
Rubin Interviewed by de Volkskrant, Dutch Morning Newspaper
In early September 2018 Dr. Rubin was interviewed by Niels Waarlo, Techjournalist De Volkskrant. Rubin and Waarlo exchanged several e-mails and on September 14, 2018View More
Cornwell and Rubin to Present on Native Ads at HICSS2019, Maui
The Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-52) will take place in January 2019 in Maui, Hawaii. HICSS prides itself as “the longest standingView More
Rubin will Participate in the Newhouse/iSchool Lecture Series, Syracuse University
On Tuesday, October 16, Dr. Rubin will be joining two other panelists at Syracuse University in the Newhouse/iSchool Lecture series panel on “Fake News, LanguageView More